Difficulties of Persian Learners of English in Pronouncing Some English Consonant Clusters

Mohamad Ali Fatemi, Atefe Sobhani, Hamzeh Abolhassani

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate some difficulties that Persian EFL learners may have in producing someEnglish consonant clusters orally. Since consonant clusters in a language comply with its underlying phonologicalrules, or more specifically underlying syllabic structure, it seems to be quite relevant to deal with the syllabicstructural rules of first and second languages.It could be hypothesized that learners when facing such structural unfamiliarities resort to their native languagephonological rules. By taking contrastive analysis hypothesis (CAH) into account, we could get a clearer visionpartly towards the difficulties to reject or confirm the hypothesis.

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